The software is malicious.

[gridlore]

One of the net-places I hang out in is Yahoo! Answers. Mostly in the religion, military, and political areas. The place is mostly inhabited by "please do my homework" types, but some questions are actually interesting. But, being Yahoo!, the software is not the most stable.

It always seems to happen when I've spent time researching an answer and pulling several sources. Today, the question was about the shot fired at Lou Dobbs' house. I did the research to show that he lives in a rural area where it is currently deer season, and pointed out that the round failed to penetrate the house' aluminum siding. This indicates a round that was fired from quite a distance, possibly as far as two miles away.

Write this all up, and hit reply.

And get an error message.

Frustrating.

Comments

[jonathonbarton.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the internet.

That drives me up a tree like nothing else on the 'net.
I've made it a longstanding habit to Control-A, Control-C, Click 'Send'. Just in case.

Like right now.

[claidheamhmor]

I hate that too; I wish there was a way to recover keystrokes typed into ether.

I've got Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, macro-programmed into one of the keys on my gaming keyboard.

[notthebuddha.livejournal.com]

If you own your own PC, you can install your own spy program to spy on yourself and log what you type.